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Twitch updates its policy to allow streamers to simultaneously stream on multiple platforms

21Oct

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Twitch updates its policy to allow streamers to simultaneously stream on multiple platforms

[ad_1] On Friday, October 20, popular live streaming platform Twitch hosted day 1 of TwitchCon, its semi-annual gaming convention in Las Vegas. During the keynote session, the company announced a number of new updates that included new features for streamers, and viewers, as well as updation of its policies. During the event, Twitch also announced that it will finally allow the non-exclusive streamers to simulcast (simultaneously stream on different live streaming platforms at the same time). This comes as a breath of fresh air for some of the big-name content creators on the platform who were forced to stream at different schedules on different platforms.Twitch also posted about all the new changes in its blog post. There, it stated, “As of today, you can now simulcast on any live stre...

Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn

24Aug

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Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn

[ad_1] When fans of Kaitlyn Siragusa, a popular 29-year-old internet personality known as Amouranth, want to watch her play video games, they will subscribe for $5 a month to her channel on Amazon.com Inc.'s Twitch. When they want to watch her perform adult content, they'll subscribe for $15 a month for access to her explicit OnlyFans page.And when they want to watch her do things she is not doing and has never done, for free, they'll search on Google for so-called “deepfakes” — videos made with artificial intelligence that fabricate a lifelike simulation of a sexual act featuring the face of a real woman. Siragusa, a frequent target of deepfake creators, said each time her staff finds something new on the search engine, they file a complaint with Google and fill out a form requesting t...

While Twitter can lose its block feature, Twitch users gain a more powerful functionality

22Aug

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While Twitter can lose its block feature, Twitch users gain a more powerful functionality

[ad_1] It has been almost a week since Elon Musk made a tweet declaring he will delete the blocking feature on Twitter (now X), and it led to users debating it and many claiming that it will make the social media experience unsafe. But while Twitter decides to take away users' right to block others, Twitch is taking the exact opposite approach. According to reports, it is getting a new feature that will allow streamers to totally block users to the extent that they cannot even watch their streams.In the Patch notes E20 stream, it was announced that Twitch will be getting new features. Trevor Fisher, the company's senior project manager, said, "People want their bans to do more," and introduced a new blocking feature that will let streamers block specific users. Fisher also said that it ...

3Aug

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Elon Musk wants to speak to Apple’s Tim Cook to cut App Store fees for Twitter creators

[ad_1] X owner Elon Musk wrote a long post urging users to support the creators on its social media platform by subscribing to them. The microblogging platform recently added a new feature to support content creators where users can subscribe to an account for bonus content, a ‘subscribed' badge, and even exclusive Spaces interactions. In the post, Musk said that the company has decided not to take any commission from the revenue generated through subscriptions to creators for the first 12 months and thereafter till a $100K payout has been reached. After that, it will only take 10 percent. The billionaire also said that he will speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the App Store fee structure to see if it can be adjusted to maximize creator revenue.In a tweet, Musk talked about the import...

Twitch expands its ban on gambling livestreams

3Aug

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Twitch expands its ban on gambling livestreams

[ad_1] Amazon-owned Twitch said Wednesday it's expanding the ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform.The company said it will now prohibit streams of online casinos Blaze and Gamdom, adding to the four sites it banned last October when its new gambling policy went into effect. Twitch announced the restrictions after a controversy broke out on the platform last year involving a streamer accused of scamming users and other content creators out of thousands of dollars to fuel a gambling addiction. That led some big-name streamers to protest the platform's lax policies on gambling streams. As the pressure intensified, Twitch said it would prohibit websites that include slots, roulettes or dice games and aren't “licensed either in the U.S. or in other jurisdictions that provid...

Australia regulator to probe social media influencers for false endorsements

28Jan

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Australia regulator to probe social media influencers for false endorsements

[ad_1] ACCC said it would look at more than 100 influencers after several consumers informed the regulator about some endorsements and testimonials which they said were misleading. Australia's competition regulator said on Friday it would check whether influencers on social media platforms had failed to disclose their affiliation with the brands they were promoting. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it would look at more than 100 influencers after several consumers informed the regulator about some endorsements and testimonials which they said were misleading. "The number of tip-offs reflects the community concern about the ever-increasing number of manipulative marketing techniques on social media, designed to exploit or pressure consumers into purch...